Word: hockey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York Rangers, professional hockey team: their two-out-of-three game series against the favored Montreal Maroons, for the right to play the Detroit Red Wings for the Stanley Cup and hockey's world championship; 1-to-0 and 4-to-0; at New York, then Montreal...
...after his teammates had tied the score, to turn back the shot that Babe Siebert, the Canadiens' defense man, sent in so hard that it spun the goalie around when he tried to block it. That made the score 2-to-1. The Red Wings, playing wide open hockey on the chance of catching up, lost their gamble when Gagnon scored his second goal of the game just before it ended, Canadiens 3, Red Wings...
That, last week, was the start of professional hockey's most important series of games thus far this season-for the championship of the National Hockey League. The only more important series of the year will start next week, when the winner of the Canadiens-Red Wings series plays an as yet undetermined opponent three-out-of-five games in the final play-offs for the Stanley...
...professional hockey, the playoffs for the Stanley Cup, battered silver trophy that has been the game's No. i prize since 1894, mean what the World Series means to professional baseball. The difference is that the playoffs achieve their point much less directly. If the Stanley Cup were awarded to the winner of the series between the two teams that led their respective divisions of the National Hockey League, the maximum number of games in the playoffs would be five. What happens instead is that all but the two worst of the league's eight teams engage...
Born 52 years ago in Winnipeg, Broker Housser made a Dominion name as a hockey star, first at Toronto's swank St. Andrew's College, later at the University of Toronto and then on Toronto's old St. George hockey team, amateur champions. He got his business start in Massey-Harris (farm implements), shifted to brokerage, setting up his own firm, now H. B. Housser & Co., in 1917. For years he had been a power in Exchange affairs, took an active hand in negotiating the merger that really made Toronto a miners' mart, played...